Principal AI Engineer

Location: Hybrid work in Austin, Texas; Menlo Park, California; or Reston, Virginia, United States. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, protected individuals, or eligible to obtain required U.S. government authorizations.

Company

hirify.global develops explainable and trustworthy AI solutions for mission-critical decisions in enterprises, government, and regulated industries.

What you will do

• Design and build hirify.globalFlow Edge Builder capabilities for packaging, configuring, deploying, and operating AI solutions at the edge.
• Develop repeatable workflows that combine models, agents, data pipelines, APIs, and supporting services.
• Build deployment abstractions and orchestration components for cloud, on-premises, disconnected, and air-gapped environments.
• Implement model and service lifecycle management, including versioning, validation, upgrades, rollback, and compatibility management.
• Develop infrastructure for containers, Kubernetes, local inference, hardware acceleration, storage, and networking.
• Build secure, observable, and reliable platform capabilities, including diagnostics, health monitoring, recovery, APIs, documentation, and technical guidance.

Requirements

• Experience building production AI/ML platforms, MLOps systems, developer tools, or deployment infrastructure.
• Strong Python, Go, or similar software-development skills.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, APIs, networking, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Understanding of model serving, inference runtimes, quantization, batching, hardware acceleration, and resource-constrained environments.
• Experience with technologies such as ONNX, TensorRT, PyTorch, Triton, or vLLM.
• Knowledge of secure software development, identity and access management, secrets, encryption, auditability, supply-chain security, automated testing, observability, and reliability.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work environment with offices in Reston, Virginia, and Austin, Texas.
• RSU equity ownership and role-appropriate total rewards.
• Unlimited PTO and 14 paid company holidays.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance from day one.
• Paid parental leave and a collaborative mission-driven environment focused on secure, transparent AI.